This act appoints commissioners to examine the claims of residents of the province who have had property damaged in the uprising of 1837 for possible compensation.
This Ordinance provides a sum not exceeding forty-seven thousand, three hundred and forty-four pounds, fourteen shillings and seven pence to defray expenses incurred by the Civil Government from 1837-1838.
This act pardons those who took actions which may not have been entirely legal, but were considered necessary at the time, in order to subdue the insurrection of December 1837.
This Ordinance authorises the repayment of the sums advanced from the one hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and sixty pounds fourteen shillings and six-pence granted from the Treasury during the 1837-38 Rebellion, and the processes by which the sums advanced should be accounted for.
This act prevents people not associated with the militia, or who do not have the permission of the province, from practicing military exercises. It also outlaws the possession of many weapons.
Under this Ordinance, all personal actions, suits, indictments, and prosecutions against persons who apprehended, committed, imprisoned, or detained rebels or persons for High Treason, Suspicion of High Treason, or Treasonable Practices are to be discharged or made void, under the terms and limits outlined.
This act allows certain people who engaged in the recent rebellion to be granted a conditional pardon; the condition is the individual in question should banished themselves from the province.
Under this Act, the government of the Province of Lower Canada is to be handled by a Special Council rather than the Provincial Parliament as directed until November of 1840. The duties and limits of this Special Council are described.
This Ordinance continues the 1833 Act, “An Act further to suspend certain parts of an Act or Ordinance therein mentioned, and to consolidate and further to continue for a limited time, the provisions of two other Acts therein mentioned, for more effectually ascertaining the damages on protested Bills of Exchange, and for determining disputes relating thereto, and for other purposes;” which is to remain in force until 1842.
This Act continues the 1835 Act, “An Act for the Transportation of certain Offenders from this Province to England, to be thence again transported to New South Wales or Van Diemen’s Land," which is to remain in force until 1842.
Under this Ordinance, three commissioners are to be appointed to investigate losses or damages that loyal inhabitants suffered during the rebellion. The processes by which these commissioners are to be appointed and their duties are outlined.